Informative Speech On Bladder Cancer

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There are many different types of diseases to do with Bladder Cancer but I will be talking about Transitional Cell Carcinoma that’s from Urinary Bladder Cancer. The meaning of TCC is cells that line inside the bladder. It expands when the bladder is full and shrinks when your bladder is empty, and tumors can form inside the ureters and the urethra. There are two alternate subtypes in Transitional Cell Carcinoma, which is Papillary Carcinoma and Flat Carcinomas. Papillary Carcinoma is a type of TCC that grows out from the inner part of the bladder close to the hollow center in fingerlike projections. They don’t grow into deeper layers of the bladder wall and it has a very good outcome. Flat Carcinomas is a type of TCC that does not grow out …show more content…

Patient will need to have surgery where they get a total removal of the ureter with bladder cuff, renal pelvis and kidney to provided good results of curable patients. Complications for Transitional Cell Carcinoma is sexual problems and urinary diversion from getting the ureter with bladder cuff removed. The emotional impact you have through first being diagnosed to the after effects from treatment. Survivors and patients who still have TCC will need to do cystoscopy every three to six months for the first few years after treatment. The prognosis for a Transitional Cell Carcinoma patient varies from patient to patient depending on the stage of the cancer. TCC outcome and life expectancy of the disease are based on statistics of Urinary Bladder Cancer which are early detection has a 5-year survival rate of eighty-five percent. The outcome is fifty percent of Urinary Bladder Cancer cases found in stage three are curable, and if Urinary Bladder Cancer continues after two years of being diagnosis it’s a five percent survival rate. Lastly one-third of Urinary Bladder Cancer cases go undiagnosed until the cancer has spread more areas in the body that develop other

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